Lip Balm for Davin

This time of year Davin's lips always tend to get really dry and chapped. She isn't a fan of mint, an ingredient any many lip balms, so I said I would make her some... "my very own golden lipstick mama?"  Why yes!

I looked at the many recipes on line and started to get my usual bout of information paralysis, and then decided to just pick one that I had the ingredients on hand and go for it.

I ended up doing something close to this one, but decided to add a little lanolin as well.  Some I had seen also included honey, but I was out, so omitted.  Here is my version:

Davin's Lip Balm

1.5 Tbsp beeswax pellets
3 Tbsp coconut oil
1 Tbsp lanolin
6 Vitamin E oil pills (I pierced and squeezed out, but I think there was more on me that in the container...)
5 drops essential oil (sweet orange oil)

I just melted the first 4 ingredients in a double boiler (one that I use strictly for beeswax), and then added the essential oil at the end.

I then used an eye dropper to put into the plastic lipbalm tube containers.  It filled 6 tubes, plus I poured the remaining in a metal tin which I will use.

I've used it a bunch of times now, and I really love how it feels on my lips, although I will probably experiment with diffent essential oils next time, just to see the difference.

Overall definitely a hit and worth doing!